Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...king had touched him on a sensitive spot. All his life he was annoyed that people made him paint their faces and refused to give a guinea for his hayricks and his cottages. Portraiture was fashionable. Landscape was not. Well, one lived in the world; one painted portraits. Sir Joshua had done it; scuttling Romney did it; Thomas Lawrence got himself into the Royal Academy at 21 by doing it. Venuses and Adonises. Even the king managed to be funny about...
...Sir Joseph Duveen's third great acquisition was Romney's portrait of Lady Elizabeth Forbes. These three, together with certain other paintings and objets d'art, cost him $1,000,000. Governor Alvan T. Fuller of Massachusetts, millionaire art collector, secured Romney's superb "Lady de la Pole" for $220,000. The sale continued three more days, but without further headlines in the press; $2,280,000 had been realized in the first two days...
...triteness and the excellence of its technical effects, there hovers over it a formal and elegant carnality which the modern mind likes to encounter. Perhaps carnality is the wrong word; perhaps you cannot apply it, for instance, to Lawrence's picture of Miss Mary Moulton Barrett for which Sir Joseph Duveen gave 74,000 guineas; perhaps you cannot call this pure and lovely miss, standing with round arms pressed to round bosoms, a storm behind her head, animation in her eyes, gauze around her legs, anything but "Pinkie...
Over the side of the S. S. Homeric, panting off Quarantine in New York Harbor, was swung a dark-bodied, white-winged seaplane labeled Moth upon its slender thorax. The wings were unfolded and passengers jammed the Homeric's rails to watch Sir Alan and Lady Cobham of England skim off to circle Manhattan and dip to a reception committee waiting on an upriver pierhead. But the Moth would not rise. Built for still-water work, her pontoons could not cope with the heavy groundswell that was running. She had to be towed forlornly ashore behind...
...Sir Alan's reception was no whit cooler, for all that. Encouraged by Publisher Lester D. Gardner of Aviation (weekly), he had come to the U. S. for a lecture tour in behalf of his passion and, of course, his pocketbook. His passion is commercial and civil aviation-flying for everybody-and in its service he has flown the length of Africa, the breadth of the seas between Britain and Australia (TIME, Oct. 11), without any preparation beforehand beyond ascertaining where he could pick up fuel. Interviewed, he spoke with scorn of parachutes: "Great heavens! If flying...